Are we what our mothers made us? Lessons from epigenetics

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Arizona Center for the Biology of Complex Diseases, and Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona. Electronic address: donata@email.arizona.edu.

Editorial

Donata Vercelli. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2018 Feb.

. 2018 Feb;141(2):525-526.

doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2017.12.973. Epub 2017 Dec 20.

¹ Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Arizona Center for the Biology of Complex Diseases, and Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, University of Arizona. Electronic address: donata@email.arizona.edu.

No abstract available

Keywords: Childhood asthma; DNA methylation; epigenetics; maternal exposure; phthalates; transgenerational inheritance.

Comment on

Maternal phthalate exposure promotes allergic airway inflammation over 2 generations through epigenetic modifications.
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